Russia on Monday threatened retaliation after the European Union slapped sanctions on Russian military intelligence chiefs over the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain.

We reserve the right to take retaliatory measures over this unfriendly step, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.The European Union introduced sanctions against Igor Kostyukov, the new chief of Russia's GRU military intelligence, and his first deputy Vladimir Alexseyev.Kostyukov took over the GRU after the death of his predecessor Igor Korobov last November.The EU also released the real names of the two agents accused by Britain of carrying out the chemical attack in Salisbury last March, confirming earlier reports identifying them as Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin.Moscow said the claims did not stand up to criticism. An information campaign unleashed by the British authorities over this case primarily has a domestic agenda, the Russian foreign ministry said. It is telling that its new round coincides with a new...

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